Christmas Sock 2008

Making this Xmas sock for a friend...she also wants one with a snowman on it and a poinsettia. I had two of these with the moose on them done, but I think a moth got at them and ate a hole in each one where I had folded it and put it on the couch last spring before we moved to the lake.

I am using Canadiana yarn that I have left from my yarn shop days. The yarn has held up well for over 15 years since it has never been used before and it comes from a smokeless home. Cats, yes, cigarettes, no!!!

I hope to be able to design the other two from this pattern as I have the diagrams for them but I do not like to knit these socks on two needles and sew them together. So I will take the designs and incorporate them into this moose pattern. I have already figured out how many more rows I will need to add to this pattern and once I get my head around the rest of it I will be able to get them done in a couple of days from when I start.

It is snowing here again. The last couple of days it has been so foggy you couldn't see across the street. It is 34F so this snow won't last long.

Hope all had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday? We went to DH's cousins for supper. DH came after he got out of work and we all had a great time. The ride home was slow due to fog, but we both made it home in our own vehicles. I drove the truck down there and he had the car at work. I made a couple of graham cracker pies from scratch the evening before so we had a lot to eat and a lot of great company to share the day with. Tomorrow I am going to cook my turkey for us.





KNIT ON!!

Winter is here!

Since I have no camera to take pictures of the weather or my sweater progress I'll just write a little bit about it.
We got some snow yesterday with heavy winds and a lot of Arctic cold. This made for bad driving conditions and more wood in the wood stove. The winds are still howling today and the windchill is around 0 F. Too cold too soon if you ask me. I did go out to the dump yesterday cause DH is working 12 hour shifts and he won't be home before it closes at 4. Once out I decided to visit with cousins for just a few minutes to see how they are. Haven't been over since before I had surgery in July. Forgot to go to the grocery store to pick up DH RX...two days in a row now. They will put it back if I don't get there today and by the looks of the wind and cold today, I am not going out!!

Working on a Christmas stocking for a friend. She gave me a pattern for them (2) and I really don't like it. So trying to take the snowman and poinsettia designs and work them into the pattern I used for family socks. My pattern doesn't have enough rows for the design without taking away from the one that is there. Oh well. Don't want to make them too big or long. Will just have to figure out something else or find a different pattern with those designs in them.

Have the two panels for Sarah's sweater up to the neck..now to start decreasing then then increasing for the back. They are made in one strip from front to back. Then you pick up the sleeves from the panel. Different!!!

This economy is sure bad. I am hoping our new President will be able to help us get things back on the right track quickly. If not, this country and the whole world will be in deep do-do. The thing that really pisses me off is that it's more taxes and we are taxed so much right now, no wonder we can't make ends meet. These big companies and banks should be ashamed of themselves for asking us Americans to bail them out! We make squat compared to their income and benefits and they still want more. They should be put in prison for their greed! Making 27 million a year and then going to the government for more money just so they can keep their live styles and we lose what little bit we have?? (Ford execs., auto execs) What a joke this country has become! Talk about taxation without representation!!! I think we need another Boston Tea Party only it should be a "No more Taxes" party. Let these companies take care of themselves. We sure aren't getting any help.

Nov 24, 2008

I heard on the news today that we are now bailing out CITI bank! Wow! I want to be on that bail out list too! Where do I sign up? If we could get help to pay off our camp loan we wouldn't have to sell it!! Come on people!!! Where will this end? I have no income at all and only DH is working and now it's going to be pay more taxes while the big wigs keep it all and I go without??? I just don't see how we can bail anyone out and still keep our head above water too!!!

Well enough of this crap...I am stepping off my soapbox for now!

Have been knitting on my alpaca socks last night. Have the heel turned and will have to wind some more yarn to finish this one up. Then I only have one more pair of them to make for my DS for his Christmas gift. DDIL is done and so is her mothers so that makes a couple more gifts done.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL!!!

KNIT ON!

Sarahs sweater Part 2

Started the new sweater this afternoon. I am knitting the two front parts at the same time. I love this yarn!!! All the pretty colors from the 5 different colored skeins will be eye catching for sure. I will have enough left over to make some little baby socks for my new grandson due in Jan. 2009.

Rosemary..again, thank you so much for ordering all this beautiful yarn and the pattern book from Berroco!!

My Sony Camera is Broken

Well, I am so upset with my camera's not working. I bought it 5 years ago and have had no problems with it until recently. Yesterday I wanted to use it to take pictures of my finished sweater and all it did was have a black screen. If you took a picture it was black. I could use it to view my other already taken pictures but that was it. So last night I went to the Sony Cyber Shot website and chatted with a rep. He asked a bunch of questions and then gave me a link to the problem and read that. I filled out all the forms, online, and submitted it. They charged me $15.oo for shipping it to and from but are going to fix the problem for nothing....YIPPEE!! Seems that one of the components was faulty and they had one batch manufactured with that in it and mine was one of them. When I bought the camera I got a notice that my camera WASN'T one of them..but they fibbed. And it is! I just hope they can get it fixed and back to me before Christmas.

On yesterday post I tried to link Rosemary's Gift Shop to her website link and all I managed to do was connect it to the heading. So am going to try this again. Rosemary's Gift Shop link http://www.maine-crafts.com/ Hope this works! If not click on the heading on this and the other post.

Sarah's new sweater

Received my pattern book and yarn from Rosemary's Gift Shop in Cornish Maine. She has been so good about ordering for me. I am going to make this in a size 4 so Sarah will have it next fall. Trying to keep ahead of the growth game. They grow so fast at times and then slow down.



The book and yarn are from Berroco. I should have a lot left over as the pattern called for one skein of 4 of the colors and 2 of one color. I can always make socks with the leftovers.

This is the yarn I am going to use. I had to use my scanner to upload today as my Sony camera isn't working. I am so upset with this camera. I paid over $1200 for it in 2003 and the last couple of years it has been acting up. Today I went to photograph the yarn and books and the finally finished hooded sweater and it won't do anything but show me already taken photos. The screen is black when I try to use it to shoot a picture. I can see all the writing the camera has on the battery length and such, but it won't work...all I can see is black. But it will display my previous photos. Darn, darn, darn!!!!! Nothing seems to be going good right now. Oh well.

Our new little grandson to be is coming along well. Anna had her checkup last week and all is fine. He is right on schedule...whatever that means. LOL They are thinking about naming the little guy after his great grandfathers...Laurence Reynold. I think it is too long a name for the little guy, but not my kid. Great grandads would be pleased with the name I am sure. But time will tell. They could change it at the last minute. But it is up to the parents to name their child. Whatever his name will be I will call him a little nick name like I do with my son.

The weather here today is weird. We are supposed to have thunderstorms tonight and heavy winds. It has been raining for 3 days now and I swear we are going to have to go get the boat at camp and bring it home in case we need it...like Noah's Ark. ha ha.

Ankle is getting better every day. I am not using my cane any more, I just have to be careful when I get up to move as it is stiff until it gets stretched out. Now if the numbness would go away from when the doctor cut the skin and bones. No one ever talks about that part of knee or ankle or any bone replacement numbness. It has been over two years for the right knee and I still have a lot of that prickly numbness on the outside of my knee. It is very irritating at times as it seems to be worse on some days then others. My ankle has most of it on the outside and the heel area. It is continuous and very hard to not think about at times. Oh well, time will tell how much of the nerve endings will rebuild or not. And I have no patience for waiting..ha ha.

Take care all and KNIT ON!!

Our cat family

This is Tonto. He had most of his teeth pulled last Tuesday and is finally getting back to being himself...old bastard! He is 16 1/2 years old. DH said it would have been cheaper to put him down then to pull the teeth, but that was all that is wrong with him so I gave him some more time with us. He will have a hard time until his gums heal, but he is already eating the dry food. Maybe he won't kill all my squirrels and birds next summer...lol


This is Feather. She came from the hovel and had been stepped on by the horses. Her pelvis and back leg were broken. She was so little she didn't know how to eat food. Took her to the vet and then kept her in a cage for a month. All that time we spent teaching her how to eat moist food by making it into almost a liquid...it didn't take long for her to learn and heal up. She bonded with DH and she still thinks he's her mother. She is 14 years old.



This is Samantha. Always up for special attention from us. She is no longer with us. I still find myself looking for her or calling her name when I call the others...lol



An this is Penny. She is the youngest of our cats. She has had a hard life. She came to us after someone dropped her and her sister off and they had given birth to 4 kittens each. We took them in, mothers and kittens, and then found homes for the kittens. Kept the mothers and had them fixed. The other one we called Shadow as she had no voice. Penny made up for that!! We lost her about 2 years after she came to us. We still think someone took her home as she was so bright white and pretty. They were both so starved and thin when they found us.


Knitting is coming along fine. Working on too many projects right now. So only going to work on the one that I have for my DILs friend Wendy. I have the front, back and the two sleeves done and sewing it up today. I will then start on the hood. Hope to have it done by this weekend. We will see. Then to start the little cabled blue sweater for our new grandson that is due in Jan.

Well, back to knitting. Take care all and

KNIT ON!!

Crystals baby shower

Crystal with her ribbon and bow hat on after she had opened up all her wonderful gifts. She got so many things she will need a UHaul to get it all back to Bangor!!




I knit this little dress for her. It is acrylic so she can machine wash and dry it.


Here's the little hat I knit. Didn't get the little sweater done in time...she isn't due for another 6 weeks so I should have time to get it done.

We all had a wonderful time at the baby shower today. I got to see a lot of relatives I haven't seen in years. Some had their grandkids with them so that made the party a little more lively!! Got the kids to pick up all the leftovers for us and clear the tables...all at that age where they want to help!

KNIT ON!